Quotes About Currency

Money is worth no more than brains. It is often worth much less.

It is my great hope someday to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known, namely that our highest currency is respect.

Tengo la esperanza de que algún día la ciencia y quienes toman las decisiones redescubran lo que los antiguos siempre supieron, concretamente que la moneda de mayor valor es el respeto.

If pennies become worthless, does that devalue our thoughts to less than nothing?

He picked out a little twenty-dollar gold piece

Money. An instrument invented in ancient temple complexes, to keep track of debt: counters that acquired mobility and went a-walking, weaving webs of debt into vast and intricate meshes, enslaving and directing the labor of billions in service of the obligations created by its issuance. . . . Money: a shadow play projected on the walls of our minds by the dark sun of debt.

Inflation of all kinds devalues everything it infects. It obscures information and so distorts behaviour.

Commodity money solves the hyperinflation problem. No government can produce huge new quantities of gold, silver, or mackerel.

For as long as there have been creditors and debtors—which is a darn long time—creditors have tried to protect the value of the currency and debtors have sought to devalue it.

One currency can be swapped for another at whatever rate two parties are willing to make a voluntary trade.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Earlier, physical currency used to dominate. Now, mobile currency or digital currency is dominating. For digital currency, fintech is very crucial.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

It's all about the money.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

The most important thing is to defend the euro.

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that it was really as ethereal as a rainbow. The money did not physically exist. Even "real" money was only specially made paper printed with black ink on the front and green on the back. What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

time was the ultimate commodity, and you were born with only so much to spend, and there was no passbook to tell you the exact amount.

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Pile up that gold around my head. I must take it with me to pay the ferryman.' 'I thought it was just a coin on the eyes or something.' 'Inflation. Also, I'll take up rather a lot of room on the boat.

So, it was to the pay phone that she descended, bearing the coin of the realm.